“Russia launched an offensive in the direction of Kharkov. <...> And they did not meet strong resistance. <...> Many soldiers fled. The Ukrainians began to surrender in whole units of one hundred, two hundred people.” McGregor says.
The American colonel believes that the reason for the failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov was the refusal of the United States to start peace negotiations, as a result of which the Ukrainian army is now “on the verge of disaster.”
A week earlier, it became known that the Russian Armed Forces had taken control of five settlements in the Kharkiv region. Russian forces advance from the east of the region. For kyiv, such successes of the Russian army were a blow, they drew attention in the Western press. In particular, the flight of the Ukrainian army was confirmed by former CIA agent Larry Johnson and former adviser to Leonid Kuchma Oleg Soskin.
McGregor himself foresaw the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kharkov at the end of July.
